Ein unerschrockener Schatten sucht sich ein fröhlicheres Leben Der Schatten Sam führt seit siebeneinhalb Jahren ein ganz schön angepasstes Leben, im doppelten Sinne. Denn der Junge, zu dem er gehört, ist einfach viel zu brav und macht nie etwas Wildes – also kann Sam es auch nicht. Doch eines Tages löst sich der Schatten von seinem Jungen und macht sich auf die Suche nach dem L...(展开全部)

Samantha (known as Sam) is a fisherman's daughter who dreams rich and lovely dreams--moonshine, her father says. But when her tall stories bring disaster to her friend Thomas and her cat Bangs, Sam learns to distinguish between moonshine and reality.

"[A] wise and inspiring autobiography--Walton tells his quietly fantastic story with conviction and makes no bones about his mistakes." -- San Francisco Chronicle "It's a story about entrepreneurship, and risk, and hard work, and knowing where you want to go and being willing to do what it takes to get there.  And it's a story about believing in your idea even when m...(展开全部)

Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world.The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, Sam never lost the common touch.Here, finally, inimitable words.Genuinely modest, but always sure if his ambit...(展开全部)

Gardner's second collection of amusing, thought-provoking problems and puzzles from Loyd's Cyclopedia -- perhaps the most exciting collection of puzzles ever assembled in one volume. Arithmetic, algebra, speed and distance problems, game theory, counter and sliding block problems, similar topics. 166 problems. 150 original drawings, diagrams.

在线阅读本书 Samantha (known as Sam) is a fisherman’s daughter who dreams rich and lovely dreams--moonshine, her father says. But when her tall stories bring disaster to her friend Thomas and her cat Bangs, Sam learns to distinguish between moonshine and reality.

Friends Sam and Dave set to with a spade each and a dog for company. They are on a mission and they don’t intend to stop until they find something spectacular. When digging straight down reveals nothing, they dig sideways, in different directions – still nothing. At least, that’s what they think. When the boys take a nap, the dog starts digging. And something spectacular happen...(展开全部)

At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredible, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike p...(展开全部)

From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales. In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India – the firs...(展开全部)

At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredible, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike p...(展开全部)